Build a badass startup team

Build a badass startup team

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ALICE@THEFAMILY.CO @_THEFAMILY

ALICE@THEFAMILY.CO @_THEFAMILY

HELLOHELLO

Steve Blank

* Searching for a meaning * Hacker mindset * Long term vision

PROFILE

FREEDOM

CULT&

1. Founders

2. Hiring

3. Firing

4. Paying

5. Managing

6. Seizing opp

FOUNDERS

1. Founders

Complementarity

Skills

1. Founders

Talk truth long term

values

Vision

1. Founders

Choose them as you’d chose wife or husband

LOVE

HIRING

2. Hiring

One doubt? No doubt. Use your gut feelings on people, not on business.

Instinct

2. Hiring

You’d better accept to pay the price of it.

Go fast

2. Hiring

Engineer Biz Dev Product lead Graphic Designer

PEOPLE

2. Hiring

Young +2 years of exp +10 years of exp

Experience

2. Hiring

- Who By Geoff Smart & Randy Street

READ

FIRING

3. Firing

Respect the ego. Recommend. Offer money.

Be good

3. Firing

With jerks.But understand that you’ve made a mistake.

Be radical

Paying

4. Paying

Above the market rate should be the rule for startup.

You’d better have one well-paid employee rather than 3 poor ones.

Pay more

4. Paying

- Ask for the impossible - Together in success

Why?

4. Paying

You’d better lose 10% more of your startup, than having employees suffering.

Get $$$

Managing

5. Managing

Write your Manifesto Explain de habits & Style Create an Onboarding process Care for the decoration

Make it clear

Kill emails => Slack Kill meetings => Stand Ups Kill pdf => Posters & images

Give Info5. Managing

Always have time for chit chat Organize weekends & parties Be aware and listen Kill the pains & fears

Be available5. Managing

Check everything Repeat again & again Explain the schemes of thought

Be paranoiac5. Managing

Seizing opportunities

6. Seizing Opportunities

No one is irreplaceable. NO ONE.

Irreplaceable?

Never go against the employees’ interests.

Think long term with your people.

Let it be6. Seizing Opportunities

By Yourself A players

You Recruit 6. Seizing Opportunities

GRACIASGRACIAS